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Director of Interconnection

Consult Energy USA • united states, united states, us • 3w ago

Director of Interconnection (Renewables)| MA | $160K - $190k base + bonus

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The Role:

The Director of Grid Integration shall have overall responsibility to administer the firm’s grid integration practice – for distribution and transmission-level interconnection requests. The role is effectively one of a player-coach - partly a specialist individual contributor and partly a team manager. The Director reports to the Vice President of Grid Integration and may oversee and support the senior engineers on the team.

Responsibilities:

Identify optimum locations on the grid with potential for interregional transmission expansion or interconnecting large volume of generation resources in the MW & GW range.
Develop strategies for site acquisition based on interconnection characteristics and specifics of markets. Support engineers in developing and maintaining market specific interconnection strategy.
Collaborate with internal teams on interconnection aspects (costs, schedules, options). Assist, especially critical path and late breaking issues, in delivering portfolios of projects to COD. Continuously improve intra- and inter-team processes.
Gain a deep understanding of various interconnection configurations and engineering parameters to reduce interconnection costs and turnaround.
Support interconnection engineers on strategies and approaches to negotiating alternatives, lower costs and shorter timelines to BW’s benefit with utilities/RTOs. Assist in difficult project issues.
Assist in justification of financial case for interconnection payments,
Actively follow various RTO stakeholder meetings and state industry advocacy groups to both stay abreast for policy changes that could impact company’s development portfolio. Advocate for policy and regulatory change towards lower market level interconnection barriers,
Research and analyze ratings and other grid service paths to identify optimum upgrades for potential projects,
Oversee due diligence on potential projects to assess interconnection and commercial viability of projects,
Oversee timeliness of interconnection applications and process,
Oversee contractual arrangements with consultants and subcontractors necessary to support a broad range of grid analyses - Drive down costs,
Negotiate complex transmission and/or generator interconnection agreements with various transmission service providers across the US and Canada,
Support commercial analytics team in performing detailed nodal and zonal market analysis with power flow analyses,
Have a commercial mindset and creativity with the willingness and flexibility to work in a fast-paced work environment with constantly shifting priorities,
Maintain strong relationships with key players internally and externally,
Manage interconnection team of 4-8 employees. Maintain employee engagement.

Essential Skills/Experience:

Ability to work well on a team in a fast-paced environment and manage tight deadlines.
Be detail orientated and possess interpersonal and organizational skills.
Strong engineering, analytical and quantitative skills.
At least 10 years of experience with relevant interconnection work
Bachelor's degree in electrical or power engineering required
Strong experience in ISO-NE/NYISO or Distributed Generation markets preferred
Demonstrated knowledge of grid planning and/or electric market principles with experience utilizing at least one of the common grid analytics tools like PSS/E, PSLF, Powergem TARA, PROMOD, GRIDVIEW, UPLAN, PLEXOS, AURORA, etc.
Planning level knowledge of substation configurations, transmission line design and ratings, and cost estimates
Understand solar and storage project single line diagrams and layouts, utility infrastructure and interconnection processes, technical aspects of utility interconnection materials, policy, incentives and tariff implications on interconnection applications.

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